WINOL Week Two, Year Three;

Week two;


COMPASS meeting - role; director
The filming of the COMPASS meeting was a lot different to the way we film WINOL in the way that it was mixed live, because of the use of all three cameras in the studio. As director it was my decision when to cue the vision mixer - which was nerve racking because it was an unscripted event. Judging when to cut between Simon Hayes, Andy Marsh and a shot of them both on screen was difficult at first but because of the q&a nature of the meeting, after a while it was easy to judge when a question was going to be asked/answered. Once or twice the speakers were cut out of too early, but because there was no script there was nothing we could do to avoid it.


WINOL - role; director
Suggested that we no longer film the headlines as the presenter isn't seen - instead utilize the radio studio to save time to sort out other problems. This idea was taken on board because the headlines this week were not filmed until late in the afternoon because of the changes made to the headlines and the headline clips.

We had a lot of problems with exporting files this week as none of the news room computers have Final Cut Pro seven as well as Final Cut Pro x. The way packages were exported before was through both so that they worked and were the right size in the gallery. For the second week we had an issue with this.

I made the decision to go live at three even though we had a short amount of time to rehearse with a new presenter. The bulletin went well but I felt that this week the gallery that the team were not cooperating because of all of the problems going on. I Felt we needed to rehearse but it was impossible with editors and reporters coming into the gallery with changed packages and chunks of script minutes before we went live, which was very frustrating.
The bulletin went well in the end and there were only a few hiccups to do with sound and cutting out of VTs too early – but this was something that was very easily sorted in post production.